Episodes

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to Marina Simonian and Joshua Herzig-Marx. Marina is a product professional with almost 20 years of experience in designing and launching successful products, primarily in the healthcare systems and digital health industry. She has worked with teams of various configurations, locations, backgrounds and styles, and over the years has honed in on the fact that vision driven development is critical for delivering true value and aligning teams around a common...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to Ben Edmunds and Adam Berman. Ben has over fifteen years of experience in the industry, working on everything from startups to enterprise software to robotics. He is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Wayfair. Ben is the host of the PHP Town Hall and More Than Code podcasts, as well as the author of two books, Securing PHP Apps and Securing Node Apps. Adam is a staff software engineer at r2c. In this role, he focuses on developing new products to help...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to engineering leaders Nick Halm and Damien Stanton. Nick is the VP of Engineering at fintech startup, JustiFi. Nick is an experienced technology leader driving the creation and maintenance of complex software systems. He has progressed through leadership roles and intentionally mentors development teams through all stages of growth. Damien has worked in a variety of developer roles for over a decade and currently works at PwC Digital as a senior researc...

Join us for a discussion about startup equity – from the perspective of employees and founders. In this episode, our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup leaders Nate Jones and Ryan McQueeney. Nate Jones got his start in tech maintaining (and breaking) Oracle ecom databases. He went on from there to found his own company (coffee and coffee gear) before moving to Amazon and then Drift. Most recently, Nate has joined Palolo, where he stays busy building a bank that makes life easier for employees...

Join us for a discussion about getting layered– when leadership adds a new role between you and your current boss and fills the role externally (instead of promoting from within). In this episode, our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup leaders Kim Merino and Sean McBride. Kim is a self-taught software engineering manager from Los Angeles, where she currently leads the Growth Front End team at Netlify. She thoroughly enjoys helping her team grow in their careers and mentoring women in tech. Se...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup leaders Anne Neilsen and Rajesh Nerlikar. Anne is the Executive Director of Product Management at cybersecurity startup JupiterOne. Throughout her career, she has developed a specialty in the security space working in both product strategy and marketing at various companies (including Veracode, IANS, and Rapid7). Rajesh is a Co-Founder and Principal Product Advisor at Prodify and co-author of the bestselling product book, Build What Matters. Ov...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup leaders Jeff Nettleton and Leo Hentschker. Jeff has developed a specialty building software products in the health-tech space. His career journey has included working as the Director of Engineering at Aledade and has most recently brought him to Color, where he is currently the Staff Software Engineer. As the CTO of public notice startup, Column, Leo is currently focused on building the engineering team. Prior to that, he was one of the early e...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup leaders Roselle Safran and Mike Hans. Roselle is the CEO and Founder of cybersecurity startup, KeyCaliber. Her previous startup, Uplevel Security, was acquired by McAfee. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Roselle led cybersecurity operations at the Executive Office of the President during the Obama Administration. Mike is the VP of Engineering at cybersecurity startup, Picnic. His professional background spans numerous cybersecurity startups whe...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup tech leaders Padmashree Koneti and Seth Cousins. Padmashree has spent over 25 years building a career in tech, spanning Software Engineering, Product Management and Operations. Padmashree deeply believes that each person's career is a unique journey, more akin to rock climbing the face of a mountain than a linear progression on a well-defined path. Seth has been working on software in various forms for over 25 years now. He started as a softwa...

How We Hatched: Igor Jablokov, Founder and CEO of Pryon | Ep01 Welcome to the first episode of our series called "How We Hatched" where we have candid conversations with tech founders and unveil their unique startup journeys. In this episode, our host Tim Winkler speaks with Igor Jablokov, the founder and CEO of AI startup Pryon. Previously at IBM, Igor grew impatient with the gap between the invention and commercialization of AI and departed to establish cloud computing pioneer Yap. Five yea...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup engineering leaders, Frankie Nicoletti and Josh Tong. Frankie is a software engineer, leader, educator, and polymath and has worked at several early-stage startups ranging from ecommerce to social media. Josh Tong is currently the Principal Product Manager at CognitOps and offers a decade of experience building out product teams at Series A startups. This episode sheds light on startup engineering and product teams as they scale from seed to S...

What are the roles of startup product and engineering teams? How can these teams collaborate effectively, to make innovative products? Join our hosts, Tim and Mike, alongside our guests Rebecca Moran and Johnny Ray Austin, as they discuss the unique relationship between product and engineering. With 5+ years of experience leading startup product teams, Rebecca offers a wealth of valuable insights. She is currently the Senior Director of Product Management at Procurated, where she leads the pro...

How does a startup evolve from risky venture to stable organization? What role does funding play in a startup’s trajectory? In this episode, co-hosts Tim and Mike, alongside our guests Michael Grove and Spiro Roiniotis, dissect how the source of funding impacts the way startups scale. Michael is SVP of Engineering and Co-Founder at Stardog, where he manages their world-class engineering organization and helps shape the direction of the Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph. Spiro is CTO and co-fou...

Join our hosts, Tim and Mike, as they talk to startup engineering leaders Geoff Harcourt and Mitch Pirtle. Geoff is the CTO at CommonLit, a non-profit that distributes a literacy curriculum in English and Spanish to millions of students around the world. He currently leads an engineering team with zero C.S. majors. Mitch is the CTO at InsurTech startup, HOMEE, and comes from a career of starting companies and open-source projects. He has built the engineering departments at several high growth s...

The Build vs. Buy Software Debate: Tips from Startup Engineering Leaders | The Pair Program Ep01 Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup engineering leaders Mike Garrett and Ian Lotinsky. Mike Garrett, an Engineering Manager at Caribou, is no stranger to startup life and has experienced the startup lifecycle from pre-money through acquisition. Ian is the VP of Product, Engineering, and Design at Imagine Learning. He’s been building web products since the mid-90s for organizations of...

Join us as our hosts, Tim and Mike, talk to startup engineering leaders Mike Garrett and Ian Lotinsky. Mike Garrett, an Engineering Manager at Caribou, is no stranger to startup life and has experienced the startup lifecycle from pre-money through acquisition. Ian is the VP of Product, Engineering, and Design at Imagine Learning. He’s been building web products since the mid-90s for organizations of all sizes. In this episode we take a deep dive into the build vs. buy software debate. You’ll le...